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Example sentences for "halfbreed"

Lexicographically close words:
hale; haled; halesome; half; halfback; halfbreeds; halfe; halfes; halff; halffe
  1. Now we'll duck under cover and you meet the halfbreed and bring Dick here.

  2. Garry then told him some of the adventures that they had encountered, and the part that the halfbreed had played in them.

  3. Howells struck with all his strength and his hard knuckles took the halfbreed on the point of the jaw.

  4. Swimming under water, the halfbreed made for the craft.

  5. They drive him away, and later find the halfbreed is inimical to them because of a fancied grievance he has against the elder Boone.

  6. We've got a halfbreed doing chores for us, but he has to be looked after or he neglects things.

  7. I suppose you and Foxy and that halfbreed have been fixing up some more evidence, huh?

  8. It was not Ward, but the crude sympathy of this old halfbreed was more to her than all the expensive flowers that had been stacked upon mommie's coffin.

  9. I thought for a moment the Halfbreed would return the blow.

  10. That was the only time I saw the Halfbreed put out.

  11. I was at a loss how to comfort him, and it was while I was waiting there that suddenly we saw the Halfbreed coming up the trail.

  12. The Halfbreed nicked the flesh down to the bone, then with the ragged jack-knife he began to saw.

  13. After the second round the others dropped out, and Marks and the Halfbreed were left.

  14. Once, over a slough a few yards wide, the Halfbreed built a bridge of willows, and we crawled on hands and knees to the other side.

  15. Early one afternoon we were all resting by a camp-fire on which was boiling some moss, when suddenly the Halfbreed pointed.

  16. He rushed in and came out again, dragging the Halfbreed at arm's length.

  17. After the Halfbreed had told him, he lay silent awhile.

  18. The Halfbreed was the most resolute of the party.

  19. Taking his sheath knife in his mouth, the Halfbreed started to crawl on his belly towards them.

  20. The Halfbreed had crawled ahead a mile or so, and he came back to where we lay.

  21. The Halfbreed lost no time in coming to the point.

  22. The Halfbreed was inimitably cool, his face was a perfect mask.

  23. On the new chestnut she had ridden away on the prairie, so the halfbreed woman had said, as hard as he could go.

  24. The halfbreed saw this, and he cried out something in a guttural voice.

  25. He won heavily from Grouse Piet, but the halfbreed is thick with him now.

  26. Beside this cage there stood a tall, swarthy, shaggy-headed halfbreed who looked like a pirate.

  27. His fear had not been of Jacques Le Beau and Netah, but of the halfbreed away over on Red Belly Lake.

  28. Around the long, rough table over a score of men and halfbreed women lay in drunken stupor.

  29. The Nor'westers' wives, the French-Canadian girls, the halfbreed women swung madly through the square and string dances with the Brondel men of their choice.

  30. He lurched in one night in the midst of a whistling storm with his dog team and a halfbreed assistant.

  31. At the table's end one man's debauched face lay on the breast of his halfbreed Bacchante of the revel.

  32. But still the halfbreed and the voyageurs sometimes used it for a night's shelter on their journeys.

  33. Five halfbreed track beaters packed the snow in front of the other sledges.

  34. Rods and things are ready, and there's a French halfbreed at the camp to cook for you.

  35. He passed thoughtfully through the general office, noting as he closed the door that on a bench near Clark's door sat Fisette, a French halfbreed whom he knew.

  36. Beside the halfbreed he seemed to perceive Stoughton, and with Baudette he discerned the figure of Riggs, and so on till there were marshalled before him the whole battalion of those who were caught up in the onward march.

  37. But one of his halfbreed children very presently had commandeered the tin cup and its contents, so that to this day no man knows whether the child swallowed the nugget or threw it into the Laramie River or the Platte River or the sagebrush.

  38. Few Indians were admitted at one time, other than the Indian wives of the engagés, the officials of the fur company or of the attached white or halfbreed hunters.

  39. The old halfbreed style of loading, too, was rapid enough to give Jackson as many buffalo as Bridger's bow had claimed before his horse fell back and the dust cloud lessened in the distance.

  40. Two slatternly halfbreed female servants informed me that in a few minutes dinner would be served.

  41. He took his temperature, looked grave, and sent a halfbreed servant away to soak some towels and rags in cold water, which when she returned he ordered her to place on Huber's head and change every few minutes for fresh ones.

  42. All of the Poison Oakers want me out of here, but only the Seldens and the halfbreed are aware that Jessamy is friendly with me.

  43. There in plain sight the halfbreed was climbing like a bear from limb to limb, keeping the trunk of the tree between his chunky body and the cabin in the valley.

  44. If the halfbreed left his observation post by a route which passed near the prospect hole, Oliver would be discovered.

  45. He tottered into the street and fingered the heavily silvered Spanish halfbreed bit, which, Oliver had been told, was very valuable intrinsically and as a relic.

  46. Into the eyes of the halfbreed came a viperish light that almost stilled Oliver's heartbeats.

  47. They would ambush him, as the halfbreed had attempted to do.

  48. He spoke the name of Charley Crow, and as if understanding what he wished to convey, they led him into the comfortable cabin, where the boy found himself face to face with the old halfbreed whom he had so gladly assisted in the woods.

  49. He drew himself up proudly, regardless of the pain his wound must be causing him; and the lad could see that despite his evident age, the well-known halfbreed was as straight as any pine that ever grew in the Northland.

  50. In speaking of Tom Tucker he happened to mention the name of Old Sol; and immediately the brown face of the old halfbreed lighted up.

  51. I hope is, that it turns out to be that good old halfbreed we heard so much about, Charley Crow they call him, because his other name is too much for a fellow's tongue.

  52. This halfbreed was evidently going to force her acquaintance upon her.

  53. She was wrathfully deciding that she would pack at once and leave a place where it was possible for her to be snubbed by a halfbreed Indian.

  54. Judging from the working fingers and flashing eyes of their friend that probably in that case the halfbreed would never bother anybody again, the boys were silent for a few minutes.

  55. Benton's first impulse had been to leap for the rascal and avenge the attempt the halfbreed had made to stab him.

  56. To-morrow we sail for the Spanish Main, and leave that dirty halfbreed here.

  57. For the rest of the trip, the boys kept their eyes open, but the halfbreed made no hostile move, and for a time they believed that Benton must have mistaken his man.

  58. Similar gloves were brought by a Cree halfbreed from the Putahow River.

  59. Presently he traded them to a Cree halfbreed from the Putahow River, who was to have them made into a coat for himself.

  60. Tom had fallen to his knees after his catapulting impact and when he arose he held a squirming halfbreed over his head at the height of his upraised arms.

  61. But Tressa was in the way, and by the time he reached the open only a tiny cloud of dust rising above the edge of the steep drop to the river bottom told the way the halfbreed had gone.

  62. Peter Maverick," the halfbreed had replied without a smile.

  63. The halfbreed felt safer, for he had taken greater precautions nearer the caves.

  64. During those eight months the Sergeant himself had traced northward the horses the halfbreed had stolen.

  65. Dropping to his knees, he bent close above the spot where the halfbreed had scattered the spruce needles not an hour before.

  66. As Tressa stepped back to let the Policeman enter, the halfbreed slid unobtrusively to the other side of the room and stood in the semi-obscurity facing the doorway, his back tight against the wall.

  67. At the same moment a rifle snapped from the thickets behind, and even as the halfbreed flattened out he noted the swift flash of spume close to the dog's head.

  68. In the semi-darkness of the trees the old corncob pipe sparked rapidly, sweeter to the halfbreed than nectar, for Mira had held the match that lit it.

  69. Hereafter the halfbreed was just prey; sooner or later he would fall before the slumbering fires that knew no law but the knife, no restraint but fear.

  70. The halfbreed spent the evening pondering on that.

  71. The halfbreed accordingly determined to make his report to Torrance, and if the contractor treated it too lightly, he could then inform the Police.

  72. Yet, insisted the Inspector, the halfbreed was not rustling.

  73. He had no conscious thought that Mira's early infatuation for the Sergeant continued; he knew that he, halfbreed though he was, had her whole heart.

  74. In deep dejection the halfbreed returned to the cave with his burden.

  75. The picture had faded before another--the halfbreed wounded to death by a bullet he had drawn to his own chest to save the Police friend for whom it was intended.

  76. Then there had been more or less of mysterious coming and going among the halfbreed hangers-on about the trader's store, and these were things the new post commander knew not how to interpret, even when informed of them.

  77. Sure they'd bite their own noses off fur him," said Mike, which impossible feat attested the full measure of halfbreed devotion.

  78. Unable to resist a sudden impulse, he flashed on his light and found himself looking into the muzzle of a revolver and the villainous face of Pete Carlo, the halfbreed Mexican!

  79. He heard a cry of pain behind him, and bewildered, he turned again to see the halfbreed nursing a pair of bleeding knuckles.

  80. On account of the delay caused by MacNutt, the match was called off between the halfbreed and Buck Miller, much to the latter's satisfaction.

  81. Mason wondered why the halfbreed didn't attempt to close the door and take him out through the secret passage.

  82. After a short consultation between the two men, the halfbreed left on some mission.

  83. It was a more perfect retreat than Devil's Gap, and Josephine's heart sank when she remembered that Powers had said that only he and the halfbreed knew of the place.

  84. They had been thrown off the trail when darkness set in, but all vowed they would get the halfbreed if it took them all summer.

  85. He promptly made the Marshal and Bud aware of his suspicions that the two were signaling each other, with the result that the halfbreed was taken into another room and put through a grilling third degree.

  86. Mason had determined to capture the halfbreed and Powers, and rescue Josephine, if it cost him his life.

  87. The halfbreed had slipped by the cowboys on his mission to Waneda without being seen by them!

  88. He had just made up his mind to risk an attack on the halfbreed when he heard a slight noise behind him.

  89. He had learned the particulars from his foreman and was for discharging the halfbreed on the spot, but Josephine had interceded with such good results that her father had relented and promised to give the roan another chance.

  90. Powers and the halfbreed with his men are waiting at Devil's Gap to wipe them out.

  91. The halfbreed assented, and Powers after cautioning Ricker to keep silent about their visit, the two conspirators left hurriedly, taking a roundabout way to the Bar X ranch.

  92. The halfbreed had circled the foothills and made for Ricker's just as Bud's men thought he would.

  93. The halfbreed has gone for our horses just over the knoll, and we will be a good many miles from here by morning.

  94. Illustration] Moose there were in plenty, and good guides, Indian, halfbreed and white, but luck was against them all.

  95. I called him a Red River halfbreed and he never said a word--just swallowed it!

  96. How dare you ask us to have as our leader a halfbreed North-West Indian, who is the son of your father's cook?

  97. Haywood notes the story on the authority of Charles Hicks, an educated halfbreed (Nat.

  98. This fine myth was obtained in the Territory from Wafford, who had it from his uncle, William Scott, a halfbreed who settled upon Yahoola creek shortly after the close of the Revolution.

  99. A noted halfbreed Cherokee woman, the date and place of whose birth and death are alike unknown.

  100. Scores recorded in collections from the North and West are nothing more than variants from the celebrated Hausmaerchen, as told by French trappers and voyageurs to their Indian campmates and halfbreed children.

  101. This leader of the hostiles in the Creek war was the son of a white father and a halfbreed woman of Tuskegee town whose father had been a Scotchman.

  102. The halfbreed would be away from camp, perhaps taking Spike to some sylvan glade in the forest among the hills, where he could take photographs of living wild animals, and where "Shorty" McNeil could collect specimens of rare plants.

  103. This, however, Hugh knew could not be possible, for he had often talked with the halfbreed and had found that Joe knew no more of Indian history than a child might learn at school.

  104. Presently only two visitors were left, a French halfbreed call Lablache, a swaggering, vicious fellow, and the captain of the steamer, Ste.

  105. Now and again I noticed Martin Holt and the halfbreed near each other while some difficult piece of work wasin progress.


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